Vladimir Putin was accused of being ‘terribly scared’ by a former Russian secret service general on Friday, adding to speculation that his position at the top of the Kremlin is growing increasingly untenable.
Rumours about the Russian president’s declining health, mental state and unstable position have swirled since long before he ordered the invasion on February 24, 2022. In the year since, the rumours have only intensified as the war appears to have taken its toll.
Footage from official meetings and appearances has shown him gripping a table for support, tapping his feet seemingly uncontrollably, and looking unsteady as he walked – while in recent years he has grown puffy and bloated.
Amid his military’s failings in Ukraine, there have also been rumours about a Kremlin plot to depose Putin or prepare a successor.
General Yevgeny Savostyanov – the former chief of the Moscow division of the FSB – said that Putin has badly misread the West’s resolve to stand up to him and did not…
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